CAREERS
Most AI jobs end at a prediction. Here the prediction becomes a setpoint on a 2,000 litre vessel at 3am, and a chemist has to trust it. If that sounds like the interesting version of the problem, we should talk.
State estimated from drive telemetry, not from a sample nobody took.
OPEN ROLES
All roles involve time inside real plants. Nobody here builds manufacturing autonomy purely from a laptop.
ENGINEERING
Build the process world model: multimodal models over inline sensors, formula structure and batch outcomes. You should be comfortable being wrong in front of a chemist.
ENGINEERING
Deterministic Rust/C++ runtime on Jetson and IGX: control loops, watchdogs, safe-state, offline survival and signed OTA.
ENGINEERING
Spectral shade regression and high-speed defect vision across compacts, bullets, jars and tubes at full line rate.
ENGINEERING
Campaign sequencing, changeover, cleaning validation and filler balancing with cuOpt at plant scale.
FIELD
Live on site during instrumentation and go-live. Translate between chemists, OT teams and the model stack.
QUALITY
Own validation approach, audit design and ISO 22716 alignment. Make autonomy defensible to an inspector.
HOW WE WORK
Engineers visit plants. You cannot model an emulsion you have never watched being made, and you cannot design a console for an operator you have never met.
We label what is aspirational, internally and publicly. Overclaiming to a quality manager is a career-limiting move in this industry.
One vertical, five products, one runtime. We say no to adjacent verticals constantly.
Decisions are written down with their assumptions, because in two years an auditor or a successor will ask why.
A pilot window is a plant’s production calendar. It does not move because a sprint slipped.
No demo-driven development. If it will not survive a night shift, it is not done.
HIRING PROCESS
Thirty minutes on what you have built and what you want to build. Mutual filter, no whiteboard.
A real problem from our domain, discussed together. No leetcode, no take-home that eats a weekend.
A session with the team you would join, plus a conversation about how you handle being wrong in production.
Reference calls, offer, and a written explanation of the level and the compensation logic.
WHAT WE OFFER
Meaningful equity at an early stage, explained clearly including the parts that are uncomfortable.
Hybrid working around plant visits. Deep work is protected; site weeks are intense by design.
Real GPU access for development and training, plus the edge hardware you need on your desk.
You will learn cosmetics chemistry, GMP and industrial control from people who do it professionally.
LEVELS
| LEVEL | SCOPE | SIGNAL |
|---|---|---|
| Engineer | Owns components | Ships correct work with support; asks good questions early |
| Senior | Owns a subsystem | Designs for failure modes; unblocks others; writes it down |
| Staff | Owns a domain | Sets technical direction; trusted alone in front of a customer’s quality team |
| Principal | Owns a cross-cutting bet | Changes what the company builds; carries the hardest ambiguity |
REALITY CHECK
INTERVIEW PREP
We ask about a system you shipped that had consequences when it failed, and what you changed afterwards. We ask how you would detect that a model has quietly degraded on one vessel.
We ask what you would refuse to automate. Candidates who cannot name anything they would refuse to automate tend not to do well here.
PROCESS FACTS
If it will not survive a night shift with a tired operator and a sensor that just went noisy, it is not finished.
CAREERS FAQ
No. Roughly half the team will not have it. You do need genuine curiosity about the physical process, because the people you build for spent decades learning it.
Hybrid, organised around design-partner plant locations. Specific locations are discussed at the intro stage and shift as deployments land.
Not currently. The work requires plant access and production responsibility that is difficult to structure for a short placement [ASPIRATIONAL for later stages].
Send a speculative application describing what you would build here. Specific, opinionated proposals get read carefully; generic CVs do not.
APPLY
Not a cover letter. One page on the hardest part of closing a control loop in a GMP plant, and how you would attack it.